Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions. Vol. 3

by: Mackay, Charles, 1814-1889

Publication date: 1997

Topics: Hallucinations and illusions, Delusions, PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology, Delusions, Hallucinations and illusions

Publisher: Champaign, Ill. : Project Gutenberg

Collection: americana

Digitizing sponsor: Google

Book from the collections of: New York Public Library

Language: English

Volume: 1-2

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The Alchymists; or, Searchers for the Philosopher's Stone and the Water of Life -- Part I. -- History of Alchymy from the earliest eriods to the Fifteenth Century. -- Pretended antiquity of the art. -- Geber -- Alfarabi. -- Avicenna. -- Albertus Magnus. -- Thomas Aquinas. -- Artiephius. -- Alain de Lisle. -- Arnold de Villeneuve. -- Pietro d'Apone. -- Rayomnd Lulli. -- Roger Bacon. -- Pope John XXII. -- Jean de Meung. -- Nicholas Flamel. -- George Ripley. -- Basil Valentine. -- Bernard of Treves. -- Tritihemius. -- The Marechal de Rays. -- Jacques Coeur. -- inferior Adepts. -- Part II. -- Progress of the Infatuation during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. -- Augurello. -- Cornelius Agrippa. -- Paracelsus. -- George Agricola. -- Denys Zachaire. -- Dr. Dee and Edward Kelly. -- The Cosomopolite. -- Sendivogius. -- The Rosicrucians. -- Michael Mayer. -- Robert Fludd. -- Jacob Bohmen. -- John Heydn. -- Joseph Francis Borri. -- Alchymical Writers of the Seveenteenth Century. -- De Lisle. -- Albert Aluys. -- Count de St. Germains. -- Cagliostro. -- present State of the Science

Book II. Fortune telling -- Book II. -- The Magnetisers